Bands That You Can't Believe are 15 or More Years Old (The 'Dang I Feel Old' Thread)

Ok, wait. U2 are contemporaneous with Boston and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

albums i can't believe are almost 15 years old

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Check also the Clash.xp

The group was impressed by his work with fellow Californian band The Muffs

haha i love that THE MUFFS helped sway green day to signing with reprise

was feeling this way back in '91, I been old for so long

its weird relistening to Everclear and being in awe of how insanely whiny it is. as a kid it definitely made sense.

the Anthology of American Folk Music is 3 times older today than some of the source material was when Harry Smith compiled it nearly 60 years ago.

When the Rolling Stones recorded "Love in Vain" in 1969 it was like they were digging up an unfathomably ancient blues tune. In fact, the song was 32 years old then. Whereas if a band today does a cover of "Sympathy for the Devil" that's a song that's over 42 years old.

More to the point of the thread, though, it's hard to believe the Red Hot Chili Peppers are a 28 year old band.

so I realized Jagged Edge's "Where the Party At?" was released about 13 years ago this coming October. Random milestone I know, but it just came to me as I thought of the song, which I used to jam to a lot the year it came out.

For perspective, in 1991, Michael Jackson's "Black or White" was released, and 13 years prior, Off the Wall wasn't even out yet and The Wiz had only just came out.

also, Ride the Lightning turns 30 this year. When Ride the Lightning was released, exactly 30 years prior, the #1 album on the Billboard 200 was Glenn Miller Plays Selections from "The Glenn Miller Story"

I got this the other day about Nevermind, which was compounded by the realization that when Nevermind came out, albums that had been released 20 years before included Led Zeppelin IV and Janis Joplin's Pearl, both of which seemed like dusty artifacts to me at the time.

I know that I used to feel this way but somehow, this doesn't seem remarkable to me now; Nevermind DOES feel quite old to me.

I'm guessing that this probably says more about my aging process than about popular culture or history.

"This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"

According to Nietzsche, who in the 19th century somehow predicted the eternal recurrence of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, well into the 21st